Living: From five-star to B&B

Singer Charlotte Churchs parents have swapped globetrotting as part of her entourage for a quieter life running a guesthouse, reports Liz Davies

Any travelling salesman would have eaten in a thousand dining rooms like this one as he flogged his way around the bed and breakfasts of Britain.

The tables are small with red paper tablecloths and the cups set out upside down in the saucers. There is a large wooden dresser with the usual breakfast paraphernalia; a selection of teas, cereals and marmalade. And there’s even a large brown damp patch on the ceiling, threatening its very life.

But look closer, and everywhere on the dresser shelves of this house in Cardiff are photographs of a young girl with some of the biggest names in the world: the Queen, the Prince of Wales, David Bowie, George Michael, Lennox Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, Julie Andrews, Bill Clinton, and yes, that is the Pope.

The girl in the pictures is Charlotte Church. James and Maria Church, her parents, have renounced the jet set